140 The Story of the New England Whalers 



living, but unable to move. One of the men 

 promptly stabbed this savage twice with a boat 

 spade, and the mate fired a musket into the dead 

 body. Then the men went on deck. The re- 

 maining savage had jumped into the sea. The 

 dead body of Captain Norris was lying on the 

 quarterdeck, beheaded. The bodies of the two 

 dead savages were thrown into the sea and that 

 of Captain Norris was prepared for burial. Dur- 

 ing the night the remaining savage returned to the 

 ship and was put in irons. He was delivered, 

 eventually, to the authorities at Sydney, to which 

 port the ship made its way. Clough's wounds 

 healed in due time. When the ship returned to 

 Fairhaven the owners, in spite of his youth, made 

 him its captain, and then laid the keel of a new 

 ship of 600 tons (the Niagara), especially for his 

 use. 



Consider the story of Captain Richard Macy, 

 of the Nantucket ship Harvest (Vol. IV, "Naval 

 Affairs/' in American State Paper s^ In 1824, 

 while cruising for sperm whales "in latitude 

 21 deg. 21 min. south and longitude 161 deg. 

 west," as the log read, the lookout cried, "Land 



